Re: Creating a user@ mailing list

2018-08-16 Thread Wes McKinney
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-16915 On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Wes McKinney wrote: > To give an example, > > dev@spark has 3008 subscribers > user@spark has 5022 subscribers > > Spark is a quite different project, of course, but it shows that a > user list can and will attrac

Re: Creating a user@ mailing list

2018-08-16 Thread Wes McKinney
To give an example, dev@spark has 3008 subscribers user@spark has 5022 subscribers Spark is a quite different project, of course, but it shows that a user list can and will attract more subscribers. dev@arrow has 789 subscribers - Wes On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Brian Hulette wrote: > Ag

Re: Creating a user@ mailing list

2018-08-16 Thread Brian Hulette
Agreed. I was concerned about the plan to drop Slack because it was a place users would come to ask questions (for better or worse). I assumed that was because those users were just uncomfortable with mailing lists, but I think Uwe is right, they're probably just uncomfortable with *this* mailing l

Re: Creating a user@ mailing list

2018-08-16 Thread Wes McKinney
hi Uwe, This sounds like a good idea to me. I think we should go ahead and ask INFRA to set it up. We'll need to add a "Community" landing page on the website of sorts to explain the mailing lists better. - Wes On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Uwe L. Korn wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like t

Creating a user@ mailing list

2018-08-16 Thread Uwe L. Korn
Hello all, I would like to create a u...@arrow.apache.org mailing list. Some people are a bit confused that there is only a dev mailing list. They interpret this as a mailing list that should be used solely for Arrow development, not usage questions. This is sadly a psychological barrier for pe